A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by members of imprisoned evangelist Tony Alamo's Christian Ministries, claiming an Arkansas agency infringed upon their religious rights in seizing children from their compound in 2008.

 

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Twelve members of an Amish splinter group in Ohio pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges stemming from a spate of beard- and hair-cutting assaults last fall on other Amish.

 

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Religious workers can't sue for job discrimination, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

They said that churches — not courts — are the best judges of whether clergy and other religious employees should be fired or hired.

 

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A former AUM Shinrikyo follower who turned herself in to Tokyo police early Tuesday was arrested later in the day on suspicion of harboring Makoto Hirata -- a former senior member of the cult, who was apprehended on New Year's Day after surrendering to the police.

 

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A federal judge has sentenced the pastor of a now defunct Los Angeles church to 15 years in prison after he was convicted for bilking millions from Medicare for unnecessary power wheelchairs.

Christopher Iruke, 61, must also pay $6.7 million in restitution, jointly and severally with his co-conspirators.

 

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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs has had his phone privileges revoked for 90 days after prison authorities concluded he broke rules concerning prison phone use.

"It was apparent in reviewing the phone calls that he was speaking to more than one person," an official said -- a violation of a rule that says inmates can talk only to people on a 10-person approved visitor list.

 

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